Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07

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for time was feared might prove fatai.
His hurts were sewed up and his recovery
is hoped for.
1t is said the Journal Office at Water
town will soon issue amorning daily, which
with other fresh news will contain the AS.
scented Press dispatches.
-Aperfect glut of ore ut the Omaha re-
duction works is reported. and unless the
works are enlarged Black Hills miners will
be compelled to 60 elsewhere for market.
Faux County will indicate its appre-
citation of the building of two great rail-
roads into its boundaries by an immense
banquet. the date of which will be arranged
hereafter.
| Russell M. Bennett offers to donate
forty acres of ground at Sioux Falls for a
park if the city will take care of it. The
property has natural advantages for park
purposes.
MIR. A. A. Osman, of Beaver Creek,
was almost asphyxiated by Eoal gas from a
base burner on the night of the 18th inst.
Mrs. Osman and little child were also
badly affected.
The Dickinson Coal Company has be-
gun operations on vein of coal twenty
feet thick. The quality is said to to far
superior to any coal in the markets of
North Dakota.
John Hodge, DeSmet miner, fell q
distance of 100 feet down coal shaft,
breaking his leg and arm and MASKING his
face in terrible manner. This is consid-
cred remarkable escape from instant
death.
One of the big projects now being
talked of by capitals and property holders
is the construction of bridge over the Mis-
souri, River, that teams and foot passen-
gers NAV cross between Bismarck and
| Mandan.
| Operations at the Yankton packing
ing house were suspended on the 2lst inst.
in consequence of an accident to the trim
mer. In climbing into wagon he strained
his right arm, and the injury is SO painful
as to cause him to quit work.
I The speorfsh Register states that the
remains Of Chris. Hanson, who was lost in
the blizzard of four weeks ago, were found
last week near his cabin, in q coulee. The
snow had melted, which exposed the body
of the unfortunate man TO view.
Some thieves carried eff trunk from
the porch CT the Chandler House Mt Fort
Pierre, the other evening, belonging to
Blind Boone. A few days later the re-
mains of the trunk were found scattered in
the suburbs, having been rihed of the con-
tents, including concert tickets, show bills
and dresses belonging to Miss Lang.
Agent John T. Kinney, of the Yankton
Indian Agency, has had conference with
Gen. Atkinson, of the Indian Office at
, Washington, upon the needs of the Indians
under his charge. He asks for permission
to purchase for the Indians 100 brood
mares, and lumber for flooring 400 houses
now under process of construction. His
request will be granted. Agent Kinney re-
ports that the acreage under cultivation
this year is largely increased over last year,
and that the corn, oats and wheat crops are
fully 66 per cent better than last year. He
says that the Indians are making rapid
progress in the science of farming, are be-
coming more settled in their habits of life,
and are looking with increasing favor upon
the proposition to give them their lands in
severalty.
| Gen. Thomas S. Free died at the in
sane hospital at Ynnkton on the evening of
the 21st inst. Tho cause of death was
softening of the brain, traceable to gun
shot wound received in the region Of the
spine while in action at Milliken's Bend,
La, in 1868. Serious symptoms had been
gathering for the past two years and lis
death was anticipated. He was born in
Columbus. Ohio, in 1910. He was edu-
Gated as lawyer, but since 1860 had been
mostly in army service. He was on Gen.
Thomas staff during the latter part of the
| war. He went 10 Sioux Falls from Ohio
in 1880, practiced law, was a G.. A. r. Or
ganizer OF the Territory, and in 1883 was
commissioned Adjutant- General of the Da-
kota militia, which position he filed up tc
his sickness. He leaves widow and two
young daughters. A guard of honor from
Phil Kearney post of Ynnkton, and Com.
pany E, Dakota National Guards, accom-.
panied the remains to Toledo, Ohio, where
the funeral took place.